MonoGame currently has ( that we know of ) 28 games published on the iOS App Store, and 5 on the Android Market place and also some recently published games on the Mac App Store and Linux markets. If any of these titles are failing, please get in contact with the developers to confirm if … Read more
You’re approaching it in an upside-down manner. What should be in your engine is the following: All the code that turned out to be common between your first and your second game. First, write a game. Don’t write an engine, because, as you have found out, you don’t know what it should contain, or how … Read more
xWinForms is easily the most complete and actively maintained GUI system for XNA. Window System for XNA (WSX) had some good progress in the past (I was working on it for a while), and is still a decent system, though it hasn’t been maintained for over a year now. The best option is definitely to … Read more
I couldn’t find any way of detecting that a Silverlight control needs to change its presentation, be it due to user interaction or animation. Controls are rendered only when the 3D scene changes because of this, and so they lack the slick look and feel of the native WP7 applications. Make something that always changes … Read more
Almost. MonoGame doesn’t use the XNA framework, it is a re-implementation of the XNA framework. The difference is that all of the code inside MonoGame has been re-written to behave identically to the XNA framework. You’re probably wondering why someone would want to re-implement something that already exists. Well, you’re correct in saying that XNA … Read more
UPDATE: March 3, 2014 Use the download for VS2012 and VS2013 at this link: https://msxna.codeplex.com/releases. I have no idea of the legality on that project (the developers seem to have decompiled XNA), but it did help me ease the pain of needing VS2010 in order to utilize the content pipeline. Old Answer See: How to … Read more
So I figured it out using a combination of the tutorials above and have created the class below. It tweens towards your target and follows it around. Try it out. public interface IFocusable { Vector2 Position { get; } } public interface ICamera2D { /// <summary> /// Gets or sets the position of the camera … Read more
If you want to leverage on XNA API, you should bet on MonoGame. It is a compatible XNA API that is targeting to run on several platforms (including several non Windows platforms using OpenGL). The development is very active, MonoGame is recently getting a full 3D stack that is starting to work on Windows Metro … Read more
The quaternion representation of rotation is a variation on axis and angle. So if you rotate by r radians around axis x, y, z, then your quaternion q is: q[0] = cos(r/2); q[1] = sin(r/2)*x; q[2] = sin(r/2)*y; q[3] = sin(r/2)*z; If you want to create a quaternion that only rotates around the y axis, … Read more
There are three parts to the cost of new: Allocating the memory (may not be required if it’s a value type) Running the constructor (depending on what you’re doing) Garbage collection cost (again, this may not apply if it’s a value type, depending on context) It’s hard to use C# idiomatically without ever creating any … Read more